I am putting my art up in public for everyone. Pen and ink and color pencil on cardboard. Abolish ICE.

A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility in Anson, Texas, April 28, 2025 (© Reuters/Paul Ratje) via Hyperallergic

The mister and I just finished our weekly grocery deliveries to ICE-effected families. Loads of college kids on winter break pitching in. It was lovely. ❤️

URGENT ACTION! #SaudiArabia: Stop deportation of Abdulrahman Al-Khalidi from #Bulgaria and address serious deterioration of his health On 26 March 2025, Sofia Administrative Court ordered his release but he's still suffering in a deportation centre. Let him go free! gc4hr.org/actions/stop...

Victorians designed the best Christmas cards

Kent Monkman Miss America 2012

Shahzia Sikander Fleshy Weapons, 1997 Acrylic on Linen 8.5 X 5.5 Feet

W. E. B. Du Bois's “Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America” is one of the books on my Christmas list.

What power art thou, who from below Hast made me rise unwillingly and slow From beds of everlasting snow? See'st thou not how stiff and wondrous old Far unfit to bear the bitter cold, I can scarcely move or draw my breath? Let me, let me freeze again to death. youtu.be/uwbFDoXpDZU?...

The woman sitting next to me in this doctor’s waiting room has not disengaged the texting sound on her iPhone and I am outraged. PS She’s texting madly right now LADY COME ON

Chris Ofili The Great Beauty (2020–2023)

Arthur Hacker Annunciation 1892

Goblin napping

Today the mister and I went to see Ursula von Rydingsvar’s gloriously heroic cedar sculptures at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT. The exhibit is worth the train ride from NYC. “Ursula von Rydingsvard: states of becoming,” curated by Margarita Karasoulas, November 28, 2025–May 10, 2026

Another mass shooting; this time at Brown. My son is safe, but I am sick at heart. And furious. Because nothing ever changes. Antifa is not a terrorist organization but the NRA is.

“The Fucking-Up Ritual” by Gideon Kiefer

Hortensia Mi Kafchin Duty to fix oneself, 2025 oil on canvas Go see Hortensia Mi Kafchin’s Paintings Made for Aliens Above at PPOW 392 Broadway October 31 – December 20, 2025

Claude Cahun I Extend My Arms 1931 or 1932 Tate Gallery

My grandmother always called the tail of the turkey “the pope’s nose” and I think about that every Thanksgiving even if we’re having tacos.

I’m watching Pluribus and so far, I’m team extraterrestrial. I’ve seen what our rugged American individualism has accomplished thus far and it leaves a lot to be desired.

Left: Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Comtesse de la Châtre, 1789. Right: Volker Hermes, Hidden Vigée Le Brun, 2019. © Volker Hermes

Franz Sedlacek Twilight Song, 1931 Albertina Museum Vienna, Austria

Chicago ❤️ web.archive.org/web/20251116...

“For people wanting to experience God, we are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church.” —Rev. Michael Woolf, senior minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston, Illinois Photo: AP/Erin Hooley 10/3/25

Relieved that yesterday the CT Senate passed HB8004, a bill that adds courthouse and data protection provisions for immigrants to the Trust Act.

Knitting and watching D.W. Griffith’s The Sorrows of Satan (1926)

“I have not mutated myself in any way. Joel and I have this conversation a lot. He literally has to stop me physically from saying something to people — to friends who’ve had work. I’m so full of fear and rage about what they’ve done.” —Frances McDormand Bruni, F. (2014, October 19) NYTimes

The constellation Sirius depicted as a dog, from an astronomical miscellany. British Library Cotton MS Tiberius C.I., fol. 28r

Honestly, we need politicians who respect sex workers way more than we need those who only respect lobbyists.

Sliman Mansour Shrinking Object, 1996 mud on plywood #palestine

Today my son and I went to see “Predator: Badlands” which is about the limitations of individualism and how coalition building across different cultural groups is crucial for achieving collective action. We give it 3 out of 4 Kalisk head trophies

Rae Klein Bodyguard, 2024–2025 oil on canvas 80 x 80 in 203 x 203 cm

I left Spotify when I learned that Daniel Ek invested €600 million in an AI military drone company. I downloaded my playlists using Soundiiz and moved them to Qobuz. Super easy.

I thought one of my son’s friends made this in photoshop as a joke. It’s real?!

Dems in ARRAY

If you’re still in line, STAY IN LINE

Enjoying proto-slasher Thirteen Women (David Archainbaud, 1932) based on the novel by Tiffany Thayer. It’s streaming on HBO until the end of November #precode

"I am convinced, the hope of the future lies in woman: woman honoured, woman cultured, woman free." Charlotte Despard speaking at an anti-fascist rally, Trafalgar Square, 12 June 1933 at age 94 (photograph by James Jarché, Daily Herald Archive)

Mood youtu.be/Q-7-DDgUh_E?...

looks like Chicago’s anti-ICE resources and whistle codes have made their way to D.C. (Pilsen Arts and Community House is credited on the bottom)

It’s amazing that the men in my hometown have not deviated from the same dress code in 70 years. The costume is: Sperry topsiders or L.L.Bean bluchers, khaki pants, and a blue or pink Oxford shirt. Imagine being able to dress exactly the same from grade school to retirement. It boggles the mind.

I’m reading “Matisse at War.” Matisse stayed in France during WW2, not wanting to desert his country. Although his work was designated “degenerate” by the Nazis, that did not stop Hermann Göring from stealing multiple Matisse paintings from the collection of Jewish art dealer Paul Rosenberg.

“Who saw him die? I, said the Fly, with my little eye, I saw him die.” Illustration by H. L. Stephens for “Death and Burial of Poor Cock Robin,” circa 1865, the book that completely traumatized me in kindergarten. Why did the sparrow do it? I had so many questions.

“This is my out. This is what puts me on the outside.” - Chill, incarcerated quilter The Quilters, directed by Jenifer McShane, 2024 (Netflix)

Shoutout to my friends who are spooky 365 days a year Pretty Birdies, Hungry Kitties by Julia Soboleva

Scrolls stitched by Lorina Bulwer (1838–1912) while interned within a Norfolk workhouse (Thackray Museum of Medicine) #textileart

The American federal government has confirmed it does not plan to issue November SNAP grocery benefits, leaving families hungry in one of the richest countries in the world. Photo: 10th October 1908: The unemployed marching in Trafalgar Square, London.

Raúl de Nieves, Who Would We Be With Out Our Memories, 2017-2021 Paper, xerox copies, photographs, ribbons, feathers, plastic flowers, yarn, dirt, tape, glue, vintage postcards, beads, fabric, glitter, ink, acrylic paint, and graphite 107 x 204 x 6 inches Courtesy of Morán Morán

Felipe Baeza’s “Finding Home in My Own Flesh” | “When I speak about the body as a landscape, it is a response to questions around belonging. There is something powerful about choosing not to belong. That's where the body is a landscape. The body is your own home—the only home that many of us have.”

Kara Walker, Unmanned Drone, Bronze, 2023 Wish I were in LA to see the “Monuments” show at The Brick